Category: World Sports

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea – Spasibo, Comrade Bettman. Russian president Vladimir Putin should send a bottle of his finest vodka to the NHL commissioner, as he’s a frontrunner for MVP of this Olympics tournament. The fallout from Bettman’s decision to keep NHL players home from South Korea is pretty simple: the Russian team is head-and-shoulders above…

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — They had been told they could never win an Olympic ice dancing medal, not competing as a sister and brother. They had been told to get new partners. They’d been asked if it was weird or awkward to compete in a discipline that often boils down to selling judges on a…